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Keeping Track of Your Corkscrew

By the end of this week we will enter the crazy zone. Everything will revolve around toys, bargains, 3am sales, wish lists and underpaid and overworked Target employees. The season of “I want” is upon us.

And then I saw this humble, adorable and useful work of DIY. My friend Anna sawed off the top of a Morton’s salt container and filled it with wine supplies. She saves her drawer space for big things, like cooking utensils and graters. She didn’t want her corkscrews to get lost in the back of the pull out and wanted to show off this darling girl in a yellow slicker.

This is simple, for sure. But it made me realize I’d rather have someone make this for me (and maybe stuff it with a Wine Doctor Intelli-Stopper) than buy me something new.

(Please remember this post when we’ll push all of our favorite products on you!)

Photo via (MHM-DLO5) in Infinicam.

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Pizza: Now a Vegetable and a Sleeping Bag

Pizza found itself in the press this week when Congress caved to the food lobbies – and ignored the health of the nation’s children – and agreed that pizza, with just a splattering of tomato paste, can count as a vegetable in school lunches. Total horse dung and totally watch Jamie Oliver mock the hell out of it.

Anyway, I’m here to restore pizza’s reputation. Because now the beloved slice can provide even more comfort: as a sleeping bag.

(Photo: The Clearly Dope)

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Attack of the Meme: Suri Cruise, Gossip Columnist

Do you like celeb babies? Do you like celeb gossip? Do you like all things bitchy, catty and totally ridiculous? Welcome to Suri’s Burn Book, a running commentary “from” Suri Cruise about other celeb offspring.

Suri dishes about Cruz Beckham‘s afternoon at Color Me Mine, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett‘s ginger baby (eek recessive genes!)  and – above – how unappetizing Adam Sandler‘s little girl, Sadie, looks while downing a muffin. Showing by example, Suri posts proof that it’s possible to eat while still looking adorable. Oh, Suri.

Hat Tip: Kiki Ryan
(Photo: Suri’s Burn Book)

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Dark Bread. Strong Cheese.

Dark bread. Strong cheese.

I found a few things to adore in Copenhagen. The rampant bicycle usage. The intoxicating friendliness of everyone I met. The abundance of blonde hair and blue eyes and big, burly, bearded Viking men.

But also, the bread. The dark bread, repeatedly punctured with a million seeds. I found this sandwich – smørrebrød – at a tiny restaurant with plenty of seating overlooking a canal. After a few days in Denmark, I could fudge reading a menu, grasping a few recognizable words: bread, cheese. 

I ordered this, asking for a side of mustard. I was not prepared, however, for that translucent rectangle atop the cheese. Gelatinous, with an overwhelming presence of meat, I assumed this was birthed by beef broth. I tried a few bites, but the Jell-O texture and too-meaty flavor turned me against it.

But really, who needs more than cheese and bread anyway?

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The Ghosts of Gourmet Past

Relive the golden era of food magazine goodness. The Way We Ate combines Gourmet‘s archival advertisements (hello, Teacher’s Scotch) with ancient glamour cover shots and extreme food close-ups. It’s still not the same as flipping through the soulful pages of the magazine, but with tumblr’s emphasis on photographs , it’s easy to fall in love with Gourmet again.

(Photo: The Way We Ate)

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Wedding. Bonfire. S’mores.

Think wedding. What do you see? Champagne? Kisses?  Bon Jovi medleys?

My friends think bonfire.

Simmer friends Tim and Alice married on the Chesapeake Bay this past weekend. After the reception, but before the hot tub session, we built a fire on the beach. Obviously a fire doesn’t turn into a party until the food arrives. Cue s’mores kits. These all-in-one tubes easily bring together the elements of s’more making: marshmallows, chocolate, graham crackers and sticks.

And the fact that everything is bundled together makes one less thing the bride and groom need to worry about.

(Photo: GeekAlerts)

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Simmering on Tumblr and Pinterest

We’re full service over here at Endless Simmer: we travel where the food lovers live.

We’ve succumb to the addictive worlds of Tumblr and Pinterest. So if you play on those sites, come by and say hi. And of course, we’re already on Facebook and Twitter.

Speaking of Twitter, make sure you follow the whole gang: @gansie, @russellwarnick (formerly Britannia), @bakersroyal, @forkitude, @emilyteachout, @madelinesho (ML), @mcj4476 (tvff), @BellyRulesMind (Borracho) and @roodeloo.

 

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